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Exploring Angolan Portuguese - Deep dive into this beautiful dialect, the ways the surrounding national languages have influenced its development, and the impact it’s had on Portuguese speakers around the world.

Prenatal learning: Just how early do we start learning language? - Take a look into the fascinating minds of foetuses as they learn language sounds in the womb, and enjoy the reflection on what this means for language learning at all stages of life!

Divergent evolution in the Korean language - Despite a common language root, decades of division has created distinct North and South Korean dialects — highlighting the profound impact that political, cultural, and ideological separation can have on language.

Order from chaos: A brief history of Korean spelling - Discover the origins behind Korea’s written script, Hangul, and the reasons why it took hundreds of years to come into popular use after its creation.

Dictionaries and the chaos of a living speech - Language is constantly evolving – so how do modern dictionaries keep up? This article explores how slang is documented, and how sociolinguistic change shapes the living landscape of Australian English.

Shifting the landscape - Translating her grandfather Shemsi Mehmeti’s novel from Albanian to English, Rona Castrioti learns what translation can reveal about the differences between these two languages and cultures.